Can Failures lead to more development than success?

Day 2

When a project cannot receive the solution or success as deserved the feeling is pain, anger, frustration, and many more. But think about the true outline of what happens when you are facing a failure? When we are facing a failure we work on multiple scenario and process to resolve the problem. With every failure we are also learning the lesson of elimination for the same problem that comes in the future. Many discoveries and inventions were a result of a failure, for example the chocolate chip cookies were a failed baking experiment (Mont, 2011). The world enjoys the chocolate chip cookie and many renowned businesses are built to accommodate this failed baking project.

What is the stand point of the project when the project has achieved the success? A project comes to a stop, celebrating the success point. What is the scope of creativity or development for the project after attaining the success? To improve the success of the current project, a new project must be initiated. The new project will involve the series of failures, elimination, creative and critical thinking, and many more similar scope.

So technically failure is not a bad experience, it could be classified as a learning experience or a development process. Then why are people afraid of failures? A failed system demands for learning process, innovation, development and possible new discoveries. A success system ideally calls for replication, because an established system just needs to be duplicated and not re-invented.

“Failures have given us chocolate chip cookies, what has success given us – a moment of satisfaction?”

~ Lenji Jacob

Reference:

Mont, J. (2011, May 18) 17 Products That Were Invented By Accident (Main Street) Retrieved August 2, 2012, from http://www.mainstreet.com/article/small-business/17-products-were-invented-accident